Cezanne Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it… — Bob Dylan
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea… — Willem de Kooning
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — Bob Dylan
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,… — Roy Lichtenstein
The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us. — Jane Hirshfield
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity… — Ian Hornak
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting. — Henri Matisse
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good,… — Robert Motherwell
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. — Clive Bell
Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature… — Mary Cassatt
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated. — Walter Sickert
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by… — Clement Greenberg
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston
There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning. — Kimon Nicolaides
The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious. — Michael Scott
If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso. — Arshile Gorky
Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system. — Wolf Kahn
Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have… — Alice Neel

Who Wrote These Cezanne Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 22 Cezanne Quotes as follows: